42cents is a little on the weak side, but if you are running 5 or 600 miles a day and most of it is highway miles, and this is your net, you can actually make more money then a guy that is getting 65cents a mile sitting on the side of the road waiting for a trip. There are all types of circumstance that play a major part in how to determine what you should be getting paid for doing a trip. Most of the time the company you are leased to gets $1.50 or more for trips. They will pay you what they think they can get away with. If a load is hot and they can’t cover it or are having trouble covering it, they will offer you the world. If they have 5 drivers waiting for a trip, and in the same area, then they play bid wars with the drivers. What I mean is – they will call driver one and tell him the load pays – x,. Then call driver two and tell him the load pays a penny or 2 less, and if you accept it look at what they saved. They will then call driver one and tell him the trip canceled. If you are a driver and don’t ask what the trip pays, then you get what they want to give. If you were to match all your trips with the actual bill from the customer, I would say most trips are paying about 48% of the customers cost. Then you pay back to the leasing company a fee for their stool pigeon, a fee for this and a fee for that. Then no top of all that you must have a certain amount of your own money in an escrow account so you can work for them.
This will never change because the company knows there are 3 new drivers knocking on the door for every driver they have working for them. If you are knowledgeable of the truth and start asking to see the customers bills, (witch by law you are entitled to see) they will find a way to get rid of you. You will be put on the hit list and things will get ugly.
I could go on and on and on, about how the driver that is doing all the work and taking all the risks to get that load to the consignee is getting the royal shaft from these companies that do nothing but answer the phone and point the trip to you. Sometimes it feels real good to vent and get rid of the trash, So I’ll quit whining.
Hey Rainbow 1 1, all that gibber - gabber above was directed to all the members of EO not just to you. So don’t get confused. I was just opening some eyes.
I replied to this and wanted to say CTX is okay to work for, I guess. I here allot of good things from their drivers. I really didn’t mean to take you to china and back just to say that. There aren’t many companies that will hire drivers with pick ups. If you have a cap already on it just hope it is tall enough for the fork lift driver to get a pallet in. If you are going to build your own, you may want to go a little taller for easy access. Your ext. cab should be fine. The question should be, What do you think about running your ext. cab? You are the one that has to drive it and for the most part sleep in it while on the road. I won’t know much about inverters, but I here allot of talk about not to buy one at a truck stop, they say they are over priced.
